User:Scjordan31/Business Civic Leadership Center

The Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) is a 501(c)3 affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest business federation. BCLC is the U.S. Chamber's resource and voice for businesses and their social and philanthropic interests.

BCLC's mission is to promote better business and society relations and improve long-term social and economic conditions by:

Communicating the U.S. private sector's unique and valuable contributions Cultivating strategies and practices that achieve positive results Coordinating public-private partnerships and coalitions BCLC works with leaders from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors to address and act on shared goals. Our overarching goal is to help build good will, good relations, and good markets by focusing on issues that affect businesses from a social and economic standpoint. This is what we call "business and society relations."

BCLC currently has networks for business disaster assistance and recovery, corporate community investment, and global corporate citizenship.

BCLC History The Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) was founded in May 2000 as the Center for Corporate Citizenship (CCC). It stemmed from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's informal creation of corporate public service coalitions and the fact that corporate citizenship was an emerging area of business management strategy.

The October 1999 U.S. Chamber Conference titled "Corporate Responsibility and Globalization" resulted in the establishment of the Center for Corporate Citizenship to "support business efforts to work with governments, lending institutions, NGOs and community groups to address corporate responsibility issues."

Over the past five years, our programs and events have grown in both reputation and in the scope of the issues covered. Since the corporate scandals including Enron, WorldCom, and others, our mission grew from just addressing corporate citizenship issues to now include the link between social and community progress and economic development and trust-building between business and civil society.

In 2006 CCC became the Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) to reflect this expanded mission.

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